With the confirmation of Joan Mir in Suzuki as expected a few weeks ago, places in the MotoGP factory teams are now fully closed for the next season. There are still empty seats in the satellite teams of which only Tech3 has officialized its 2019 line-up.

Yamaha is the only factory structure that hasn’t made any changes: Maverick Viñales and Valentino Rossi renewed until 2020 at the beginning of the year, even before the start of the season. At Honda, the most surprising thing came out – we don’t speak naturally of the extension of Marc Márquez’s until 2020, but of the departure of Dani Pedrosa and the entry of Jorge Lorenzo. The Majorcan leaves the Ducati to form one of the strongest pairs of the squad of the coming year.

Then, there was a vacancy in the formation of Borgo Panigale open (Andrea Dovizioso had already announced weeks before the renewal until 2020). And, as expected in case of departure of Lorenzo, the place went to Danilo Petrucci, who debuts in an official structure after four years in the Pramac. As at Suzuki, there will be spanish spoken in 2019: Álex Rins renewed for another two years, while Joan Mir confirmed his promotion to MotoGP next season with a link up to 2020. The #36 is on par of Petrucci, one of two new ‘faces’ in the line-up of the factory teams.

Mir entered, Andrea Iannone left, with the italian heading for the third constructor in his career – Aprilia, in Scott Redding’s spot alongside Aleix Espargaró (#41 signed the renewal for 2019 and 2020). Lastly, in the KTM, Pol Espargaró remains and becomes the only team member since the start of the project, seeing as the promising Johann Zarco arrives to his third season in MotoGP arrives at a factory structure – also hired until 2020.